“In some ways I liked the struggle better, I think. It clarified what was important.”
“For all the things we say to our children for their own good, very little good ever comes of it.”
“How women defeat one another; how need defeats women.”
“Love and war, it seemed, worked by the same rules. One had to hurry, before the fires flared out.”
“Why is it that voices break hearts?”
“Sometimes, he felt himself not so much at his wit’s end, but witless.”
“Either you're born crazy or you're born boring.”
“Freedom or prison--what's the difference? A man must develop unwavering will power subject only to his reason.”
“We don’t carry in subtraction, however; we borrow, and that involves an intrinsically different mechanism—a messy back-and-forth kind of thing.”
“(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to prove a truth]
That's a very dangerous idea. It comes quite close to saying that the willingness to suffer proves the rightness of belief. But is doesn't. The most it can ever prove is the believer's sincerity. And not always that. some people just like suffering.”
“Coach Bobby put his finger in my face. I debated biting it off—that always gets a man’s attention. “You’re a dead man, Bolitar. You hear me? A dead man.” “A deaf man?” I said. “A dead man.” “Oh, good, because if I were a deaf man, I wouldn’t be able to hear you. Come to think of it, if I were a dead man, I wouldn’t be able to either.” The”
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